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Monday, April 12, 2010
"Before I die, I am writing a few words,
We are about to die, five thousand innocent people,
They are cruelly shooting us,
Kisses to you all,
Mira…”
Translation of a Yiddish note, found in a woman’s clothing, during an exhumation carried out in October 1944, at the murder site of Jews near the village of Antanase, Lithuania
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